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" I walked up to the cloud, and my shadow was projected into it; the head of my shadow was surrounded at some distance by a circle of various colours whose centre appeared to be near the situation of the eye, and whose circumference extended to the shoulders. "
John Haygarth, FRS (1740-1827): A Physician of the Enlightenment - Page 41
by Christopher Charles Booth - 2005 - 169 pages
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Gallery of Nature and Art, Or a Tour Through Creation and Science ..., Volume 4

Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 588 pages
...cloud, that lay remarkably cluss to th« ground. The sun was nearly setting, but shone extremely bright; I walked up to the cloud, and my shadow- was projected into it. The head of my shadow was surrounded, at some distance, by a circle of various colours, whose centre...
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The Hundred Wonders of the World: And of the Three Kingdoms of Nature ...

Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pages
...which lay remarkably close to the ground. — The sun was near setting, but shone extremely bright: I walked up to the cloud, and my shadow was projected into it, its superior part being surrounded, at some distance, by a circle of various colours, whose centre...
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The Gallery of Nature and Art; Or a Tour Through Creation and Science ...

Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 592 pages
...to the DESCRIPTION OF A GLORY. 531 ground. The gun was nearly telting, but shone extremely bright; I walked up to the cloud, and my shadow was projected into it- The head of my shadow was surrounded, at some distance, by a circle of various colours, whose centre...
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The Hundred Wonders of the World: And of the Three Kingdoms of Nature ...

Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 pages
...which lay remarkably close to the ground. — The sun was near setting, but shone extremely bright : 1 walked up to the cloud, and my shadow was projected into it, its superior part being surrounded, at some distance, bv a ckele of various colours, whose centre appeared...
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The Wonders of Nature and Art: Comprising Upwards of Three Hundred of the ...

Joseph Taylor - 1838 - 672 pages
...boundary of the Vale of Clv»\c observed a rare and curious phenomenon. hut stinne extremely bright; I walked up to the cloud, and my shadow was projected into it. The head of my shadow was surrounded at some distance by a circle of various colours, whose centre...
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Peter Parley's magazine

1849 - 396 pages
...through the Vale of Clwyd I was first struck with the peculiar appearance of a very white cloud, which lay remarkably close to the ground ; I walked up to the cloud, and my shadow was projected on it, its upper part being surrounded by a circle of various colours, and very much re sembling what...
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Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of ..., Volume 8

Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - 938 pages
...cloud, that lay remarkably close to the ground. The sun was nearly setting, but shone extremely bright. I walked up to the cloud, and my shadow was projected...beautiful scene was presented to my view. The head of iny shadow was surrounded, at some distance, by a circle of various colours ; whose centre appeared...
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The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination

John Livingston Lowes - 1927 - 694 pages
...cloud, that lay remarkably close to the ground. The Sun was nearly setting but shone extremely bright. I walked up to the cloud, and my shadow was projected into it; the head of my shadow was surrounded at some distance by a circle of various colours whose centre appeared...
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Coleridge's Later Poetry

Morton D. Paley - 1999 - 164 pages
...cloud that lay remarkably close to the gronnd. The Sun was nearly setting but shone extremely bright. I walked up to the cloud, and my shadow was projected into it; the head of my shadow was surronnded at some distance by a circle of various colours whose centre appeared...
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Imprints & Re-visions: The Making of the Literary Text, 1759-1818

Peter Hughes, Robert Rehder - 1996 - 258 pages
...cloud that lay remarkably close to the ground. The Sun was nearly setting but shone extremely bright. I walked up to the cloud, and my shadow was projected into it; the head of my shadow was surrounded at some distance by a circle of various colors whose centre appeared...
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